hi! i'm the guy who's been uploading all the chikn nuggit animations on here!

all of the chikn nuggit videos on here have came from tiktok, but i'm switching my source to twitter (higher resolution, at least compared to the 2 random mp4 conversion websites i've used) and I just want to ask what twitter to mp4/webm converters y'all use and which i should trust (especially if it's direct from twitter-to-webm if it means less artifacting)

also i'm a mac chode, and i can't get ffmpeg to work with terminal nor can i get webmconverter to work with wine/winebottler. so any advice from fellow chodes short of just getting a windows machine (because i will fucking do it!)

Youtube-DL or forks of that can get direct link to MP4 file, which you can then additionally put as secondary source when uploading to e621 for those who want to access it:

youtube-dl -f best -g <TWEET LINK>

Also because it's literally just a link to the MP4 file you can just open and save that link on browser.

I have zero experience of any apple devices so have no idea how to utilize FFmpeg on it, but it should be more than possible.
Twitter videos are generally pretty compressed so CRF 16-18 is usually good enough scale to use and then remember to use two pass: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/VP9

mairo said:
Youtube-DL or forks of that can get direct link to MP4 file, which you can then additionally put as secondary source when uploading to e621 for those who want to access it:

youtube-dl -f best -g <TWEET LINK>

Also because it's literally just a link to the MP4 file you can just open and save that link on browser.

good to know about them, even a little heartwarming seeing a big repository like github stand up for them ❤️

also the problem i was having with ffmpeg was that the terminal (basically macos' command line) wasn't recognizing ffmpeg commands because i didn't type in the directory (again, i am a chode when it comes to code), now that i sorted that out i can finally use ffmpeg!

This might work. I've been using it to convert webms and movs to mp4s because I can not view them normally if they aren't on a website. Also this may help if you are trying to make gifs. No watermarks at all.